This gallery contains 3 photos. After being denied my first butterfly photo of 2014–first by a butterfly enthusiast successfully wielding her butterfly net after a Butterfly Symposium on garden grounds, and then having another butterfly almost land on my lens less than an hour later (why did I flinch? 🙂 )–I captured a Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly on the last mile of our meanderings.
This beautiful lepidopteran (which I’m guessing was a yellow morph variation, male) was happy to display for the camera (that alone was worth the 2-for-1 price of admission :)). I swear it spent more time posing and less time pollinating those pretty flowers. Now if only my camera battery hadn’t started flashing!
It didn’t even spook when I got a whole lot closer–although it did take off and reland on the same bunch of flowers. Photographed at UBC Botanical Gardens in early June.
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wow— what a beauty!
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it’s gorgeous .. and judging by how long it was displaying … it knows it! 🙂
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Oh yeah— cocky but cute. 😀
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Amazing shots! So happy you get your shutter moments 😀
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oh yes 🙂 although s/he did make it a bit easier to photograph by keeping still 🙂
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Asian Century?
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 🙂
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Amazing!
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thanks, Julia. always nice to meet such a beautiful butterfly in the great outdoors 🙂
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What a fantastic treat for us. So so beautiful. Thanks!
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glad to oblige 🙂
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Bellissima farfalla e bellissime foto!!
Ciao, Pat
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grazie! 🙂
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Butterflies are so gorgeous….and great shots too! 🙂
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thank you! it’s the biggest one I’ve had the chance to photograph! 🙂
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